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The Misleading Potential of Communicative Hand Gestures in a Forensic Interview
(2011-06-16)
A wealth of research has highlighted the susceptibility of eyewitnesses to verbal influence. However, considerably less attention has been paid to the role of nonverbal influence in police questioning. The purpose of this ...
Criminalisation for Sexual Transmission of HIV: Emerging Issues and the Impact Upon Clinical Psychology Practice in the UK
(2011-05-31)
Objective: Criminal liability for the sexual-transmission of HIV raises complex questions for both clinicians and service-users regarding their responsibilities and legal obligations to disclose information to others. This ...
Reconfiguring Academic Identities: the Experience of Business Facing Academics in a UK University
(2011-05-19)
The university sector at the beginning of the 21st Century is shifting in response to national and global changes in the role and purpose of Higher Education. Some universities, including the University of Hertfordshire, ...
Design of Body Assemblies with Distributed Tasks Under the Support of Parametric Associative Design (PAD)
(2011-05-18)
This investigation identifies how CAD models of typical automotive body assemblies could be defined to allow a continuous optimisation of the number of iterations required for the final design and the number of variants ...
Marketing Strategies in the UK Classical Music Business: The Significance of 1989
(2011-04-28)
The process by which the classical music business operates in the UK changed significantly through the marketing of a classical music recording which took place in 1989. EMI’s recording of Vivaldi’s work Four Seasons with ...
Galaxy Evolution and the Redshift Desert
(2011-04-26)
This thesis explores the evolution of galaxies from the onset of star formation shortly after the Big Bang until the present day. Particular emphasis lies on the redshift range z = 1.4 2.5, the
so-called “redshift ...
Between a Rock and Hard Place: Space, Gender and Hierarchy in British Gangland Film
(2011-03-25)
A principal aim of this research has been to establish the capacity of British Gangland film to articulate its era of production through the cinematic interpretation of contemporary concerns and anxieties in narratives ...
The Rise and Fall of the Apothecaries' Assistants 1815 - 1923
(2011-03-24)
The central theme of this work is the elucidation of the circumstances that led to the decline of the apothecaries’ assistants. The Apothecaries Act (1815) formerly recognised them as dispensers of medicine and provided ...
Blended Learning: Undergraduate Students' Experiences of Using Technology to Support Their Learning
(2011-03-24)
This thesis investigates undergraduate experiences of studying within a blended learning environment at a UK university in the first decade of the 21st century. Blended learning in this context comprises the use of ...
VOICE BIOMETRICS UNDER MISMATCHED NOISE CONDITIONS
(2011-03-23)
This thesis describes research into effective voice biometrics (speaker recognition) under mismatched noise conditions. Over the last two decades, this class of biometrics has been the subject of considerable research due ...